Pat Naomi received transit visa no. 1832 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records physician, aged 24.
Documents
The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1940: list or manifest of alien passengers, the sheet that names Zelman Josef Lichtenstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 257, frame 333 of the file unit “Sept. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Nov. 7, 1940, SS Shellco” (NAID 553884999). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.The HEIAN, arriving at Seattle in 1940: the continuation sheet, with the relatives named and the destinations, for the sheet that names Zelman Josef Lichtenstein — US National Archives, Record Group 85 (Immigration and Naturalization Service), Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, microfilm publication M1383, roll 257, frame 332 of the file unit “Sept. 26, 1940, SS Shellco-Nov. 7, 1940, SS Shellco” (NAID 553884999). Public domain; credit: National Archives at Washington, DC.
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What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Lithuanien
Age in 1940
24
Occupation
Physician
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
sister of #200
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.
Where this comes from
US arrival manifest: Emanuel Pat, Seattle, 1940 "Seattle Passenger Lists", FamilySearch, entry for Noema Pat, 1940. Ship: Heian Maru. Matched from the Heian Maru's Polish-born passenger list (198 people, of whom 57 matched the register). Register No.1832 'Pat Noema Jakob' records age 24; the manifest gives born 1916, arriving 1940. Confide